The English Language: A Linguistic History
by Laurel J Brinton


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The English Language: A Linguistic History is designed as a core text for classes in the history of the English language, offered through the English or linguistics department. Beginning with a discussion of how language changes, the book examines... (read more)

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Language and Nationalism in Europe
by Stephen Barbour


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This volume examines the role of language in the present and past creation of social, cultural, and national identities in Europe, considering the way in which language may sometimes reinforce national identity (as in England) while tending to subvert... (read more)

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Philosophy of Language 4TH Edition
by Aloysius Martinich


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What is meaning? How is linguistic communication possible? What is the nature of language? What is the relationship between language and the world? How do metaphors work? The Philosophy of Language, considered the essential text in its field, is an... (read more)

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The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
by Guy Deutscher


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Blending the spirit of Eats, Shoots & Leaves with the science of The Language Instinct, an original inquiry into the development of that most essential-and mysterious-of human creations: Language Language is mankind's greatest invention-except, of... (read more)

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Contemporary Philosophical Monographs #2: Complex Demonstratives: A Quantificational Account
by Jeffrey C King


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Since the late 1970s, the orthodox view of complex 'that' phrases (e.g., 'that woman eating a granola bar') has been that they are contextually sensitive devices of direct reference. In Complex Demonstratives, Jeffrey King challenges that orthodoxy... (read more)

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Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language #4: Language, Gender, and Sex in Comparative Perspective
by Susan Philips


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The aim of this innovative volume is to analyze both the cultural and the biological sources of gender differences in language use. The first two parts of the volume focus on cultural variation in gender-differentiated language use, comparing Western... (read more)

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Relations and Function Within and Around Language (Open Linguistics Series)
by Peter Howard Fries


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This work describes language as a network of functional relations. It presents essays on the theory of language as functional relations and essays which describe an oral text from a variety of functional perspectives.... (read more)

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By Hook or by Crook
by David Crystal


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In this delightful excursion through the English language, Crystal combines personal reflections, historical allusions, and a traveler's observations to create a mesmerizing and entertaining narrative account with the language and its speakers.... (read more)

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CSLI Lecture Notes #171: Morphology and the Web of Grammar: Essays in Memory of Steven G. Lapointe
by Orhan Orgun


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This collection presents papers in memory of Steven G. Lapointe, a distinguished professor of linguistics at the University of California, Davis, at the time of his death in 1999. Lapointe's work on morphology and its connection to other linguistic... (read more)

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Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics #3: Plastic Glasses and Church Fathers: Semantic Extension from the Ethnoscience Tradition
by David Kronenfeld


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Meaning seems to shift from context to context; how do we know when someone says "grab a chair" that an ottoman or orange crate will do, but when someone says "let's buy a chair," they won't? Somehow, in spite of this slipperiness, we usually understand... (read more)

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Papers in Laboratory Phonology #3: Phonological Structure and Phonetic Form
by Patricia A Keating


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Phonological Structure and Phonetic Form brings together work from phonology, phonetics, speech science, electrical engineering, psycho- and sociolinguistics. The chapters are organized in four topical sections. The first is concerned with stress and... (read more)

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Oxford Introductions to Language Study: Stylistics (Oxford Introduction to Language Study)
by Peter Verdonk


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This series provides brief, clear introductions to the main disciplinary areas of language study. This book examines how style is used inliterary and nonliterary texts. The topics include style as a matter of socialization, the production and reception... (read more)

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Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics #10: The Syntax of Aspect: Deriving Thematic and Aspectual Interpretation
by Nomi Erteschik Shir


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This collection of new work focuses on issues at the lexicon-syntax interface. It presents innovative analyses of theoretical issues of aspectual interpretation in a variety of languages. The authors address questions such as to what extent can variation... (read more)

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Verb Phrase Patterns in Black English and Creole
by Walter F Edwards


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An in-depth examination and comparison of grammatical phenomena in both Black English and New World English-lexicon Creoles, with a concentration on verb phrase patterns. Most of the contributors are native speakers of the languages they describe, and... (read more)

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Contrastive Rhetoric in Shona & English
by Juliet Thondhlana


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Winner of the 2003 Association of Nigerian Authors' Prize for Poetry. A new poetic work by one of Nigeria's foremost contemporary poets, I Want to Dance is an extended song cycle, divided into three parts. In the song, the poetic voice undergoes a... (read more)

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Comparative Syntax of Balkan Languages (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax)
by Maria Luisa Rivero


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This collection of seven papers studies important aspects of the syntax of Albanian, Bulgarian, Greek, and Rumanian from a comparative perspective based on current linguistic frameworks, including the Minimalist Program. Topics addressed include control,... (read more)

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Processing French: A Psycholinguistic Perspective
by Peter Golato


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Processing French presents a groundbreaking empirical study of the processing of morphologically simple and complex French words. Peter Golato's research offers an insightful account of the lexical storage and retrieval of isolated words and words within... (read more)

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The Syntax of Italian Dialects (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax)
by Christina Tortora


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This volume collects original theoretical work on the syntax and morphology of Italian and a wide range of Italian dialects. It contains contributions by such leading figures as Cecilia Poletto, Guglielmo Cinque, and Richard Kayne, and examines topics... (read more)

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